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Letters Patent No. 68,433, dated September 3, 1867.

IMPROVEMENT IN FEED-WATER. HEATERS.

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TO ALL TO WIIOM IT MAY CONCERN:

Be it known that I, JOHN GEORGE Gousnr., ot' the city and county of Sr.. Louis, State ot Missouri, have invented a new and improved Apparatus for Purifying and Heating Feed-Water of Steam-Boilers; and I do hereby declare that the following is a full and exact description thereof, reference being had to the accompanying drawings, and to the letters of reference marked thereon.

The nature of my invention consists, first. in purifying water by introducing it in a heated state in thc lower part of a vertical water-tank, placed inside of a verticalsteam-drum, which latter receivessteam either from the exhaust of a steam engine or from a steam-generator; and by discharging the water through an opening in the upper'part of the tank, so that in ascending it may leave the solid particles behind; second, in heating water by admitting it at the lower connection of a series of pipes being connected at bot-h ends, and by submitting the same to the heatingaction of steam in said vertical steam-drum during its simultaneous ascension through all those pipes; third, in conducting the water contained in the series of pipes to thc lower part of the water-tank by a vertical pipe, connected at its upper end to the series of pipes; fourth, in conducting the water from the upper part ot' the water-tank through the steam-room of said steam-drum, by means of a vertical pipe, to thc lower end of said steam-drum. and from thence by an outside pipo connection to feed-pump or directly to boiler.

The vertical steam-drum A A, (sec vertical section through ccntre,) being connected by pipe a to exhaustport of a steam-cylinder, or to a steam-generator, and having its upper part pipe b discharging the steam in the air, is provided on its lower bottom with an annular space, c, (see vertical section and horizontal section xy,) connecting the pipes B B; the upper end of the drum being provided with a similar annular space, 01,(scc vertical section and horizontal section u 11,) which is connected to pipe C inside the watertank D. This latter is again connected in its upper part to pipe E, and through it to a feed-pump, or directly to the boiler.

The operation and action of this apparatus are as follows: 'lhe cold water from an outside water-tank, Aor by means of a force-pump, enters throughrpipcp into the annular space c, then it rises simultaneously in the seriesoi' pipes B B, and is gradually heated by the action ot' thc steam in the drum A A. After reaching the upper annular space d it is conducted downward through the pipe C, near the funnel-shaped bottom of the inside water-tank D, where it takes again an upward motion. The area of the inside water-tank being very extended this upright motion will be vcry slow, and hence allow the solid particles` contained in the water to be left behind in the funnel f, from which this sediment may lie blown off through valve g, operated from time to time by the hand-lever It.. The purified water in the upper part of water-tank Dis conducted through pipe E to feed-pumps or directly to boilers, as the case may be.

What I claim as my invention, is

1. The combination of a vertical steam-drum, receiving stct u either from the exhaust of a steam engine 'or directly from a steam-generator, and an inside hot-water tank, substantially as described.

2. 'lhe combination ot' said steam-drum with a'series of vertical pipes, being connected at both ends, substantially as described. n n

3. The combination oi' the inside water-tank D and pipe C, connected at its upper end with the series of pipes B, and discharging the already hot water near funnelf, substantially as described and for the purpose specified. v

4. 'lhe combination ot' inside water-tank D with pipe E, connected to the upper part of water-tank D, and

conducting the water through steam-space of steam-drum, either directly or by means of force-pumps, to boilers.

' J. e. GoEsEL.

Witnesses:

J. J. Wnzc, HERMANN MENcK. 

